BMI and ASCAP do the licensing of public performances, and they're very aggressive about drawing the line on what constitutes a public performance. From their General Licensing FAQ
Q. I'm interested in playing music in my restaurant or other business. I know that I need permission for live performances. Do I need permission if I am using only CD's, records, tapes, radio or TV? A. Yes, you will need permission to play records or tapes in your establishment. Permission for radio and television transmissions in your business is not needed if the performance is by means of public communication of TV or radio transmissions by eating, drinking, retail or certain other establishments of a certain size which use a limited number of speakers or TVs, and if the reception is not further transmitted (for example, from one room to another) from the place in which it is received, and there is no admission charge. Your local ASCAP licensing manager can discuss your needs and advise how ASCAP can help you.
Study: Playing Computer Games Makes Kids Smarter [News] Posted by CmdrTaco on Sun July 22, 02:52 PM from the i-knew-super-mario-bros-made-me-smarter dept.
For the most part, yes, but one exception is you don't get public performance rights. You have to pay again to play that CD in a bar, on a store PA, or if you run a business as a DJ for parties.
Not just that. "Cast iron" has even more carbon in it that steel. When they first refined steel, the engineering problem was removing enough carbon from cast iron. Not adding carbon to the iron.
It's also illegal for them to use an prerecorded message for telemarketing, but I still get a call like that once every few months. I'll have to remember to report them next time.
Well, yeah because then it would be called a "play".:-) But unless you lived in New York or London, you wouldn't have much of a selection of live theater. Still though, live theater and live concerts are similar business models. Low volume, high prices.
A movie is very expensive to shoot, as much as $100,000,000. A lot of work goes into it, and the stars are paid very well.
Compared to that an album is very cheap to produce. Recording studio, band, instruments, and maybe an expensive producer if you need that commercial sound. Of course, the label probably gouged the band for a half million bucks to record the album, all charged against the band's advance.
And in the end the two products cost about the same, $15-20.
Don't store the computer. With emulation you can resurrect just about any old hardware. You name it: 68K Mac, Apple II, Amiga, Atari. Bochs is an open source x86 PC emulator. It's painfully slow on today's hardware because it interprets x86 machine code, but it'll compile on any processor platform, and in a few years the processors will easily be fast enough to run Bochs as fast as a P2-300. For another example of software emulation, Basilisk II emulates a 68K Mac. On a 1.33Ghz Duron it's as fast as a 200Mhz Quadra or 4 times faster than the fastest 68K ever built.
Lots of people complain about NPR being too PC and liberal biased, but PBS TV has some of the best news shows out there. It seems like they're the only news that doesn't insult your intelligence. Compare Newshour with Jim Lehrer to the evening news or Nightline; Newshour doesn't cover fluff stories and they might even show a whole minute of a speech, compared to 4 seconds on the networks. Frontline vs. 60 Minutes or NBC Dateline is the same thing.
Microsoft is asking motherboard makers to include public-key crypo on the board
Just one thing. All the motherboard makers are in Taiwan and also sell to Asian and European markets. It's possible the RIAA, MPAA, MSFT, et al have the political clout to force TCPA and Palladium on the US market, but what country in their right mind would willingly cede control to Microsoft of the crypto keys that let their computers run? I predict a healthy supply of gray-market import motherboards.
"I guess this is price fixing but what about all the CDs that are released. Aren't they all over-priced becuase of all the record companies working together to raise prices?"
I think the logic is that for most CDs in theory, the retailers pay wholesale and they are free to discount off the suggested retail price, but in this case the companies colluded to prevent discounting and limit advertising of these old albums (not sure how they enforced with the retailers; article doesn't say).
*shameless plug* Overstock.com has lots of clearance CDs for $5.99-$6.99. Not the newest releases but last year's and older. RIAA can't be very happy about that price, but I just snapped up 6 CDs myself which is more than I've bought in the last 3 years combined. *end shameless plug*
I'd actually be willing to pay more than that myself. $6 is even cheaper than vinyl LPs back in the day. I think one big factor is that $10 is a psychological barrier between an impulse buy and a carefully researched purchase. I'd be pretty pissed to waste $18 on a shitty CD. When they were around, Blockbuster Music had listening booths to let you try out any CD in the store. Any other places still do that?
"one of the biggest drawbacks had to do with control issues"
I would say so. Remember the plane crash at the beginning of the Six Million Dollar Man? That was a real crash of a Northrop M2-F2 lifting body prototype.
There's a big difference there. The 2.4.0 Linux kernel by itself is not a complete OS in the sense of Windows XP, and it wasn't packaged and sold as a finished product. A Linux distribution is packaged and sold in that way. They do their own testing and software integration in addition to the kernel developers, and they all waited a long time to release distros based on the 2.4 kernel.
Yeah, that example is a little far fetched. Hospitals are FULL of doctors, and if one hospital doesn't have the specialist needed to deal with an emergency, the next hospital is just an ambulance or helicopter ride away. The only scenario I can think of is if an donor organ suddenly becomes available in town (ie not shipped in from out of town with advance notice), and I'm sure that happens ALL the time.
The game turns into whack a mole if keys are cheap enough. Revoking a signing key may stop legitimate free software, but it won't stop a front company from secretly leaking a key to a virus or trojan writer. An email worm can do a lot of damage in the days it takes for Microsoft to revoke the key and everyone to do their Windows update.
This is certainly the direction that Palladium is taking. Hardware that refuses to run unsigned code. However the only way to keep this model secure is for Microsoft to hold all the signing keys. Otherwise people could keep buying low-priced shareware developer keys and leak them to the Internet. There must be some way to accomodate student and hobbyist programmers or else they'll lose most of their developer community.
I know it means God. It even refers to the same God that the Hebrews and Christans believe in. Now why don't YOU try reciting it with Allah and see how many stupid people go apeshit?
The prayer that opens a session of Congress is also not always Christian. Don't suppose you'd mind if I recited the Pledge with "under Allah", would you?
I don't think anybody's bothered to protect their diagnostic codes with patents. It's all locked up with proprietary protocols and security by obscurity. If you signed an NDA it would be protected by trade secret.
"The problem I have right now is that I cannot playback and record. Would a faster machine fix this?"
There's two things slowing you down. Encoding is much more CPU intensive than decoding. Tivos have a hardware MPEG encoder so they can get away with a low power processor. A 1GHz+ processor could probably encode TV resolution in real time. Add a few hundred MHz to decode simultaneously. However, the big problem is disk seeks. You're trying to write a big file and read another big file simultaneously. Two disk drives would help with that.
And if Fast and the Furious didn't teach me anything else, it taught me that typing into a laptop on your dashboard in the middle of a street race is a good way to optimize engine performance. Don't forget the beeps and brightly colored bar graphs.
The publishers are Japanese and I think they just want to make American and European cars look bad. In the GT1, the Corvette and Camaro were all slower or harder to drive than the Japanese cars in its class, but the GT40 was still pretty fun.
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Propane isn't used so much for street cars. A lot of forklifts use it though, since they're often driven indoors in warehouses.
BMI and ASCAP do the licensing of public performances, and they're very aggressive about drawing the line on what constitutes a public performance. From their General Licensing FAQ
Q. I'm interested in playing music in my restaurant or other business. I know that I need permission for live performances. Do I need permission if I am using only CD's, records, tapes, radio or TV?
A. Yes, you will need permission to play records or tapes in your establishment. Permission for radio and television transmissions in your business is not needed if the performance is by means of public communication of TV or radio transmissions by eating, drinking, retail or certain other establishments of a certain size which use a limited number of speakers or TVs, and if the reception is not further transmitted (for example, from one room to another) from the place in which it is received, and there is no admission charge. Your local ASCAP licensing manager can discuss your needs and advise how ASCAP can help you.
Haven't there been just as many studies showing the exact *opposite*?
Yes.
Study: Playing Computer Games Makes Kids Smarter
[News] Posted by CmdrTaco on Sun July 22, 02:52 PM
from the i-knew-super-mario-bros-made-me-smarter dept.
For the most part, yes, but one exception is you don't get public performance rights. You have to pay again to play that CD in a bar, on a store PA, or if you run a business as a DJ for parties.
Not just that. "Cast iron" has even more carbon in it that steel. When they first refined steel, the engineering problem was removing enough carbon from cast iron. Not adding carbon to the iron.
It's also illegal for them to use an prerecorded message for telemarketing, but I still get a call like that once every few months. I'll have to remember to report them next time.
Well, yeah because then it would be called a "play". :-) But unless you lived in New York or London, you wouldn't have much of a selection of live theater. Still though, live theater and live concerts are similar business models. Low volume, high prices.
A movie is very expensive to shoot, as much as $100,000,000. A lot of work goes into it, and the stars are paid very well.
Compared to that an album is very cheap to produce. Recording studio, band, instruments, and maybe an expensive producer if you need that commercial sound. Of course, the label probably gouged the band for a half million bucks to record the album, all charged against the band's advance.
And in the end the two products cost about the same, $15-20.
Don't store the computer. With emulation you can resurrect just about any old hardware. You name it: 68K Mac, Apple II, Amiga, Atari. Bochs is an open source x86 PC emulator. It's painfully slow on today's hardware because it interprets x86 machine code, but it'll compile on any processor platform, and in a few years the processors will easily be fast enough to run Bochs as fast as a P2-300.
For another example of software emulation, Basilisk II emulates a 68K Mac. On a 1.33Ghz Duron it's as fast as a 200Mhz Quadra or 4 times faster than the fastest 68K ever built.
Lots of people complain about NPR being too PC and liberal biased, but PBS TV has some of the best news shows out there. It seems like they're the only news that doesn't insult your intelligence. Compare Newshour with Jim Lehrer to the evening news or Nightline; Newshour doesn't cover fluff stories and they might even show a whole minute of a speech, compared to 4 seconds on the networks. Frontline vs. 60 Minutes or NBC Dateline is the same thing.
Microsoft is asking motherboard makers to include public-key crypo on the board
Just one thing. All the motherboard makers are in Taiwan and also sell to Asian and European markets. It's possible the RIAA, MPAA, MSFT, et al have the political clout to force TCPA and Palladium on the US market, but what country in their right mind would willingly cede control to Microsoft of the crypto keys that let their computers run? I predict a healthy supply of gray-market import motherboards.
"I guess this is price fixing but what about all the CDs that are released. Aren't they all over-priced becuase of all the record companies working together to raise prices?"
I think the logic is that for most CDs in theory, the retailers pay wholesale and they are free to discount off the suggested retail price, but in this case the companies colluded to prevent discounting and limit advertising of these old albums (not sure how they enforced with the retailers; article doesn't say).
*shameless plug*
Overstock.com has lots of clearance CDs for $5.99-$6.99. Not the newest releases but last year's and older. RIAA can't be very happy about that price, but I just snapped up 6 CDs myself which is more than I've bought in the last 3 years combined.
*end shameless plug*
I'd actually be willing to pay more than that myself. $6 is even cheaper than vinyl LPs back in the day. I think one big factor is that $10 is a psychological barrier between an impulse buy and a carefully researched purchase. I'd be pretty pissed to waste $18 on a shitty CD. When they were around, Blockbuster Music had listening booths to let you try out any CD in the store. Any other places still do that?
Folding wings are ALREADY an option on the 777. Yes, it adds a little weight, but it's not a showstopper.
"one of the biggest drawbacks had to do with control issues"
I would say so. Remember the plane crash at the beginning of the Six Million Dollar Man? That was a real crash of a Northrop M2-F2 lifting body prototype.
There's a big difference there. The 2.4.0 Linux kernel by itself is not a complete OS in the sense of Windows XP, and it wasn't packaged and sold as a finished product. A Linux distribution is packaged and sold in that way. They do their own testing and software integration in addition to the kernel developers, and they all waited a long time to release distros based on the 2.4 kernel.
Yeah, that example is a little far fetched. Hospitals are FULL of doctors, and if one hospital doesn't have the specialist needed to deal with an emergency, the next hospital is just an ambulance or helicopter ride away. The only scenario I can think of is if an donor organ suddenly becomes available in town (ie not shipped in from out of town with advance notice), and I'm sure that happens ALL the time.
The game turns into whack a mole if keys are cheap enough. Revoking a signing key may stop legitimate free software, but it won't stop a front company from secretly leaking a key to a virus or trojan writer. An email worm can do a lot of damage in the days it takes for Microsoft to revoke the key and everyone to do their Windows update.
This is certainly the direction that Palladium is taking. Hardware that refuses to run unsigned code. However the only way to keep this model secure is for Microsoft to hold all the signing keys. Otherwise people could keep buying low-priced shareware developer keys and leak them to the Internet. There must be some way to accomodate student and hobbyist programmers or else they'll lose most of their developer community.
I know it means God. It even refers to the same God that the Hebrews and Christans believe in. Now why don't YOU try reciting it with Allah and see how many stupid people go apeshit?
The prayer that opens a session of Congress is also not always Christian. Don't suppose you'd mind if I recited the Pledge with "under Allah", would you?
I don't think anybody's bothered to protect their diagnostic codes with patents. It's all locked up with proprietary protocols and security by obscurity. If you signed an NDA it would be protected by trade secret.
"The problem I have right now is that I cannot playback and record. Would a faster machine fix this?"
There's two things slowing you down. Encoding is much more CPU intensive than decoding. Tivos have a hardware MPEG encoder so they can get away with a low power processor. A 1GHz+ processor could probably encode TV resolution in real time. Add a few hundred MHz to decode simultaneously. However, the big problem is disk seeks. You're trying to write a big file and read another big file simultaneously. Two disk drives would help with that.
And if Fast and the Furious didn't teach me anything else, it taught me that typing into a laptop on your dashboard in the middle of a street race is a good way to optimize engine performance. Don't forget the beeps and brightly colored bar graphs.
The publishers are Japanese and I think they just want to make American and European cars look bad. In the GT1, the Corvette and Camaro were all slower or harder to drive than the Japanese cars in its class, but the GT40 was still pretty fun.